Senate Mulls Internet Tax Ban - VoIP Exempt?

securitas writes "eWEEK's Caron Carlson reports that this week the U.S. Senate will vote on renewing an Internet tax ban, but voice over IP (VoIP) may be taxed. The bill renews a state/local ban on taxing Internet services like VoIP. The federal government wants to define VoIP as a software application exempt from taxes while most states see it as an alternate form of telephony subject to telecommunications taxes. House and Senate bills that define VoIP as a software application have already been introduced but may not be voted on before the Internet tax vote."

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[Greyfox]

Was that a haiku?
You were one syllable short
Better luck next time

Re:You got that backwards again.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

But of course the lefties are ALWAYS accusing their opposition of their own sins.

And Republicans don't?

Usually not, actually.

The two parties attract two different types of compensated psychopaths. The Republicans attract the rule-bound, while the Democrats attract the anything-you-can-get-away-with. ("Politics is the Art of the Possible." -LBJ) This means the Republicans get the compulsive truth-tellers and the Democrats get the pathological liars.

Not all in either party are such, of course, but psychopaths ARE vastly overrepresented in politics. But the non-psychopaths of each party tend to have personal ethics similar to the psychopaths - which is why the two different styles are attracted to the two parties.

This is not to say there aren't other problems than compulsive lying with a rule-bound compensated psychopath, of course. (For starters, if you don't play EXACTLY by HIS particular set of rules, you suddenly find yourself on his scumbag list. Expect to be treated like a crook, terrorist, or trator.)

Understanding this is key to understanding the politics of the two major parties. Their members really DO think and act differently. And the members and/or supporters of each tend to become very confused when they expect the other sides' people to act like their own.